Tecsun PL-990X Global Bluetooth Receiver

As most of Tecsun products, this PL990x is as durable as the others. Tuning is super easy thanks to the smooth knobs - a coarse one and fine tune. Does SSB, both USB and LSB well. I use mine with a 20m End Fed long wire antenna strung up from house rear wall all the way to the back of the garden and with the use of an MFJ Receiver Preselector I can easily pick up the faintest SW broadcasts and listen in on ham radio conversations despite there being a nearby MW transmitter. Otherwise the local transmitter would overload the radios front end, flooding the SW bands with UK Gold Radio. FM sounds superb with the biggish speaker and the radio can double up as a Bluetooth speaker as well as play MP3s from a micro SD card.

a superb radio with excellent performance the only drawback is that it is not very user friendly it has 100s of stored memories without much information of what’s in them. i can’t remember what each frequency is for so more info of what these stations. are. ie. radio...

Amazing radio. UK based. Picking up a tiny Chinese island (hundreds of miles East of China) radio transmitter broadcasting china Radio literally the other side of the world. Reasonably clear. Have connected to my computer mic so I can record the audio, transcribe and translate automatically. Using just an 8m random wire up the side of the house at 45 degrees. Being on a hill 300ft ABMSL helping. Have picked up US stations also. FM reception is crystal clear. Miles better than my car's high end DAB radio or my home DAB radio.

An excellent radio well made and great reception, although a bit expensive.

Very pleased with this receiver. Build quality is superb and the inbuilt aerial works well. However, as with all receivers, some stations will require an external aerial for a half decent reception on AM and FM.

Shortwave listening. Good quality radio.

I love this radio, but acquiring 18650 Li-Ion batteries is more difficult than say, BL-5C batteries that other Tecsun radios use (like the PL-330). I would advise getting a brand-name 18650 battery, like Nitecore or one that is sold by one of the radio communication specialists that can be found online. Beware of cheap and nasty batteries from China that are available on Amazon that are just pure rubbish. The Moonraker Group sell Nitecore batteries, so I think that they would be a good place to find brand-name 18650 batteries.